Dixie
Cheer Parent
- Mar 9, 2013
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Same sport. Same as track. Now if track had a soccer game going at the same time - that's interesting to me.Gymnastics. Multiple events occur at the same time in the same arena.
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Same sport. Same as track. Now if track had a soccer game going at the same time - that's interesting to me.Gymnastics. Multiple events occur at the same time in the same arena.
True. I don't consider sideline cheer a sport anyways so I don't really think there are two sports going on at the same time. More like one sport and one group of entertainers. I don't think sideline should be grounded (King and I debated this on Twitter) but I also don't consider it a sport.but thats not another sport. just a different apparatus happening simultaneously.
True. I don't consider sideline cheer a sport anyways so I don't really think there are two sports going on at the same time. More like one sport and one group of entertainers. I don't think sideline should be grounded (King and I debated this on Twitter) but I also don't consider it a sport.
So schools that don't do skills, aka ground bound, have ineffective cheerleaders? Or just less effective? What about the USC song girls? They are far more famous than any other group of college cheerleaders to normal people and they are just dance style cheerleaders. Wouldn't that be against the argument?
I would agree that completely disagrees with my argument, I was just playing devils advocate for the opposite side. And NFL style "cheerleaders" would be follow that category too, although I'm not sure they actually lead the crowd in anything. Although, a lot of effective ground bound dance-style teams that are effective crowd leaders are high profile and very good at what they do. Take a mediocre team and take away the "cool" stuff (stunts and tricks) they become even more mediocre and nothing special to watch.
I will see the most effective crowd leading things I have seen from college cheer have little to no skills involved. Things that come to mind:
Great basketball timeout of all time (Hoosiers)
U K spellout of bodies on floor
Clemson running down the hill
GT ride out the wreck (ok maybe not for anyone else but this one gets me and I am biased)
A lot of the physical skills are sprinkles on ice cream that we have turned into a sport (aka competition).
I think I'm one of the few dancers here, and sometimes here dance is disrespected. We complete and practice just as hard as you guys. We just have a different set of rules. Everything we do also require tremendous athletic talent, and if cheer is a sport, so is dance.
I agree dance is just as much a sport as cheer is in all but once area. Cheer is much more likely to have catastrophic injuries and is therefore more dangerous.
Very true, but not all sports are dangerous. I just hope that soon some light comes to dance as well.
If the danger level equals a sport status, then I know of lots of sports that shouldn't be there. Golf, fishing and hunting come to mind.the main reasons for making sideline cheer a sport is danger though.
i dont think you will get anyone here to say competitive cheer or dance is not a sport. it is the sideline stuff we are discussing.
If the danger level equals a sport status, then I know of lots of sports that shouldn't be there. Golf, fishing and hunting come to mind.
And you found one. I'm alone on this I'm sure, but I don't think its a sport. It's athletic - absolutely. To me a sport means offense and defense. But if sideline is a sport, then so are dance and marching band.
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